{"id":7353,"date":"2012-07-31T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:12:23","slug":"photo-at-stoplight-crazy-california-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/photo-at-stoplight-crazy-california-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo at Stoplight,  Crazy California Beaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hblitech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some call it a sea of humanity. Others see it as a mass of bikini clad girls and gawking or groovy guys. It was a beach scene of epic proportions that forced me to sit through 4 stoplights yesterday. What could I do from my stuck position in my car other than take photos as I inched my way through US Open of Surfing crowds in Huntington Beach? The pedestrians don&#8217;t stop when the light turns red&#8211;they keep on walking, forcing traffic just to stall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-usopen-surfing-festival.html\">US OPEN OF SURFING<\/a> FACTOIDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 28-August 5, 2012, Open daily 9 a.m. &#8211; 6 p.m., free admission next to Huntington Beach Pier<\/li>\n<li>Held annually, the festival includes surfing, skateboarding, skate, bike, music, vendors, and 3 free concerts on the beach.<\/li>\n<li>Up to a million teens, tweens, twix and old hicks show up&#8211;all ages invited<\/li>\n<li>Surfing isn&#8217;t the real draw&#8211;it&#8217;s all about being with your bro (or bra) and people watching<\/li>\n<li>Free beach concerts this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons<\/li>\n<li>20 port-a-jons arrive and are set up on the street<\/li>\n<li>3 free shuttles from perimeter locations bus in the guests to the free shindig from City Hall, HB High, Edison High<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, August 4, 2012 is biggest crowd- day. A beach &#8220;village&#8221; of products, sports contests in skate bowls, and surfing take place among massive crowds<\/li>\n<li>Renegade and guerrilla marketers show up without permits, hawking their wares and handing out freebies<\/li>\n<li>Stickers and decals have been banned as free give-aways. They end up on street signs!<\/li>\n<li>Restaurants are swamped&#8211;the most popular food is pizza, burgers, hot dogs&#8211;anything cheap<\/li>\n<li>Free stuff: Go to usopenofsurfing.com to find coupons for free salads at McDonalds and other free stuff you will find being given out at the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some call it a sea of humanity. Others see it as a mass of bikini clad girls and gawking or groovy guys. It was a beach scene of epic proportions that forced me to sit through 4 stoplights yesterday. What could I do from my stuck position in my car other than take photos as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}